Manufacturing Manager Night Shift

Earlier this year (March 2026) Unilever announced an agreement to separate our Foods business. Our Foods business including brands such as Hellmanns and Knorr will join forces with McCormick to become a global flavour leader with leading positions across spices seasonings condiments and complementary food categories supported by a strong retail and foodservice platform. McCormick has 135 years of heritage a presence in 150 countries and territories and a portfolio of trusted brands. The transaction remains subject to consultation regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions with a targeted deal close of mid-2027.

Job Purpose

Were looking for a proven manufacturing leader to serve as the senior operational leader for overnight operations at our Independence this highly visible role youll lead production maintenance quality warehouse and supervisory teams to deliver safe reliable and efficient manufacturing performance across a 24/7 food manufacturing operation.

This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on people performance and culture while leading a team responsible for producing some of the worlds most recognized consumer brands.

Responsibilities

As the Night Shift Manufacturing Manager you will:

• Lead the factorys overnight operation ensuring safety complaint and efficient production execution.
• Deliver key operational targets across safety quality service productivity and cost.
• Drive accountability and performance through front-line supervisors and shift leadership teams.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for operational maintenance quality and people-related issues during night shift operations.
• Build a high-performance culture focused on employee engagement development and continuous improvement.
• Partner with day-shift leadership to ensure seamless communication execution and shift handovers.
• Drive loss elimination and operational improvements using Lean Manufacturing TPM WCM or similar methodologies.

Day-to-Day

• Lead all manufacturing activities during assigned night shift coverage.
• Coach and develop supervisors and front-line leaders to strengthen capability and performance.
• Monitor and improve KPIs related to safety quality service productivity labor and cost.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Production Maintenance Quality Warehouse and Engineering.
• Lead incident response risk mitigation root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA GMP HACCP food safety environmental and quality standards.
• Facilitate effective communication issue escalation and shift transition processes.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives that improve reliability efficiency and employee engagement.

• Build credibility across union and non-union teams through visible leadership and accountability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering Operations Supply Chain Business or a related field.
• Willingness to work a flexible night shift operation.
• 5 years of manufacturing operations or supply chain experience within food consumer goods or a similar manufacturing environment.
• 3 years of leadership experience managing manufacturing teams.
• Experience operating in a unionized manufacturing environment.
• Strong experience managing safety quality productivity and labor performance metrics.
• Proven ability to lead teams develop talent solve complex problems and drive operational results.
• Ability to work a night shift schedule and act as the senior site leader during assigned coverage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale manufacturing operations in a 24/7 environment.
• Food manufacturing experience with GMP HACCP and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Knowledge of TPM Lean Manufacturing WCM Six Sigma or related operational excellence systems.
• Labor relations grievance management and collective bargaining experience.
• SAP experience.
• Track record of leading cultural and performance transformation initiatives.

Pay: The pay range for this position is $103000 to $154400. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets experience and training licensure and certifications qualifications and education and other business and organizational needs.

Bonus: This position is bonus eligible.

Long-Term Incentive (LTI): This position is LTI eligible.

Benefits: Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate they can choose from a range of benefits to include but is not limited to health insurance

(including prescription drug dental and vision coverage) retirement savings benefits life insurance and disability benefits parental leave sick leave paid vacation and holidays as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

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